Asunder

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Version: 1.5
License: GPL2
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Asunder is a word meaning “into separate parts; in or into pieces” — a capital name for a CD-ripping program. And, in fact, that’s what it is!

Today’s review is of a graphical audio CD ripper; an application for taking tracks from your CDs, converting them into one of the many digital audio formats commonly used on computers, and saving them onto your hard drive. And it has an extremely simple, efficient interface.

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Posted by Mark Keller on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments

Fotox

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Version: 0.41
License: GPL2
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Linux users, by and large, generally use the GIMP for image editing. After all, it’s included with almost every distribution! But when you just want to sharpen a picture a little bit, or rotate it slightly, something simpler could be more handy. Especially for those who run slow or memory-malnourished computers, firing up the GIMP can be a bit of overkill. Why use an 800-pound gorilla when a spider monkey is what you really need? Enter . . . Fotox.

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Posted by Mark Keller on April 24th, 2008 1 Comment

Wordpress

The Wordpress DashboardHomepage | Download (1.0 MB)
Version: 2.5
License: GPL2
Rating: 7 stars


Wordpress is a blogging system, and an excellent one at that. Quite deservingly, it has an enormous following, with thousands upon thousands of bloggers and millions of readers using it every day. Even this blog uses Wordpress!

And, with the release of this new version, Wordpress just got better. Much better.

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Posted by Mark Keller on April 5th, 2008 No Comments

ASCII Pacman

Pac-Man unexpectedly meets Clyde, coming around a corner.Homepage | Download (8.0 KB)
Version: 0.9.1
License: GPL2
Rating: 4 stars

Back in the ’80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was phenomenally popular. So popular, in fact, that it’s become an icon of that decade, and a symbol of video-gaming in general. The game was ported to just about every major micro-computer system, and unofficial ports and copies continue down to the present day — yes, there’s even a version for Linux!

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Posted by Mark Keller on April 2nd, 2008 No Comments

Data Crow

Data CrowHomepage | Download (18.8 MB)
Version: 3.2
License: GPL3
Rating: 6 stars

Chances are, that somewhere in your house, you have a tall stack of music CDs. Perhaps not one, but two, or three, or even more, stacked up all over the place. Maybe you also have a shelf full of DVDs, as well, and a pile of video games next to your game console. Like most people, you probably aren’t very organized, either, and more often than not, you can’t remember which titles you have, much less find them all. And then, maybe, you lend out items from your collection to some of your friends. Can you always remember to whom it was that you gave what? If this is an accurate depiction of your life, then Data Crow is for you.

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Posted by Mark Keller on March 26th, 2008 1 Comment

GNU Hello

GNU HelloHomepage | Download (422 KB)
Version: 2.3
License: GPL3
Rating: 4 stars

It has long been a tradition to begin programming books with a simple program that prints the words “Hello, World!” to the screen. Among those who write programming books, at least.

Brian Kernighan seems to have been the history-making person who wrote the very first ‘hello’ program. His original masterpiece appeared in a Bell Labs Tech Report, entitled The Programming Language B, in 1973. He later went on to co-write the first book on the C programming language (which was given the very clever title The C Programming Language), which included another such program, and things took off from there.

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Posted by Mark Keller on March 24th, 2008 No Comments